Vista compatible firewall

It's amazing what you find in your junk mail box.

While checking mine I stumbled on the latest version of Scot's newsletter which my ever vigilant spam checker had taken offense to.

The newsletter looks at firewalls and links to an excellent firewall review at Matousec.

I've needed an update to our firewall recommendations since Symantec took over Sygate and stopped development on SPF. While it's still available, it's not supported or compatible with Vista.

Looking over the review, it appeared the PC Tools free Firewall is exactly what I needed to recommend as a replacement to Sygate.

I've been slack with PC Tools as they are a real Australian success story. Unfortunately, there's not a great deal of them so we should be encouraging them.


We'll be experimenting with this ourselves over the next few weeks but so far, so good.